Yedi Zhang  张叶荻

PhD student
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University College London
25 Howland Street, London W1T 4JG

Email: yedi@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

Bio

I am a PhD student at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit UCL, advised by Peter Latham and Andrew Saxe. I use theoretical approaches to study how neural networks with different architectures [1] learn, including attention-based [2], fully-connected [3], and multimodal [4] networks.

Paper

[1]  

Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics Explains A Simplicity Bias Across Neural Network Architectures
Yedi Zhang, Andrew Saxe, Peter E. Latham
Preprint 2025
webpage | arxiv

[2]  

Training Dynamics of In-Context Learning in Linear Attention
Yedi Zhang, Aaditya K. Singh, Peter E. Latham*, Andrew Saxe*
ICML 2025 (Spotlight)
pmlr | openreview | arxiv | code | talk

[3]  

When Are Bias-Free ReLU Networks Effectively Linear Networks?
Yedi Zhang, Andrew Saxe, Peter E. Latham
TMLR 2025
tmlr | arxiv

[4]  

Understanding Unimodal Bias in Multimodal Deep Linear Networks
Yedi Zhang, Peter E. Latham, Andrew Saxe
ICML 2024
webpage | pmlr | arxiv | code

Blog

2025-10-10     Exponential Family (teaching notes)
2024-09-17     Eigenvalue Perturbation Theorem
2024-04-16     Isserlis' Theorem
2024-01-21     My Cribsheet for Dynamical Systems
2023-04-06     Free Energy and EM Algorithm
2023-03-18     A Manual for Reading Independence

Fun

2025-12-29     Shows I Caught
2025-12-24     Theatre Ticket Deals in London